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The Rebirth of “Decentralized Water”
June 9th, 2023
Via Asia Global Online, commentary on how Asia can slow and reverse rising water scarcity back into abundance by adapting its own ancient endemic governance systems for today’s modern urban networks: In Asia today, cities increasingly face a compound threat: record-breaking heat and escalating thirst. From Japan to India people risk sudden heatstroke deaths or slow-motion stress as soil desiccates, crops wither, […]
Read more »Deep Drought Punishes Latin American Clean Water Pioneer
June 9th, 2023
Via Bloomberg, a look at how extreme weather has caught Uruguay – a standout for its history of investing in safe drinking water – flat-footed as it faces the safety risks of prolonged drought: Uruguay is suffering an unprecedented water crisis as a record drought threatens supplies of piped drinking water used by more than […]
Read more »When Water Security Runs Dry
June 9th, 2023
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a look at what happens when water security runs dry: In March, the UN held a major global conference on water, the first such event for 46 years. It was aimed at addressing growing concern about the outlook for global water security. According to recent estimates, 26 per cent of […]
Read more »Not Just In Ukraine: How Armies Turn Water Into A Weapon Of War
June 9th, 2023
Via 19FortyFive, a look at how the breach of the Kakhovka dam in Ukraine is hardly the first time that water has been used as a weapon of war. Earlier this week a breach in the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant unleashed the Dnipro River, flooding a vast expanse of the Ukrainian countryside. Russia and Ukraine have blamed one […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Across Asia, China Has ‘Most to Lose’ If Rivers Run Dry
June 4th, 2023
Via EcoBusiness, a look at how – across Asia – China has the ‘most to lose’ if mother rivers run dry and don’t recover from climate change: Late last year, when two months of scorching heatwaves and a drought pushed China’s electricity grid to the brink and caused severe power shortages in multiple provinces, it […]
Read more »Arizona’s Water Troubles Show How Climate Change Is Reshaping The West
June 4th, 2023
Courtesy The Washington Post, a look at how Arizona’s water troubles show how climate change is reshaping the West: Jay Famiglietti moved to Arizona this year after a career using satellites to study how the worst drought in a millennium was sapping groundwater beneath the American West. He has documented that the decline of groundwater […]
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